Slowness (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Milan Kundera
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1777 and the early 1990’s
- Setting: Paris and a country château on its outskirts
- Principal Characters: Véra, Vincent, Julie, Chechoripsky, Madame de T., The Marquis, The Chevalier, Pontevin, Jacques-Alain Berck, Immaculata, Television cameraman, Duberques
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Language or languages, France or French people, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Novelists, Eighteenth century, Ethics, Czechoslovakia or Czechoslovakians
- Locales: Paris, France
A wit once quipped that Ford Madox Ford’s exquisitely nuanced The Good Soldier (1915) is the finest French novel in the English language. The Joke (1967; English translation 1969, revised 1982), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978; English translation 1980), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985; English translation 1984) established Milan Kundera as the finest French novelist in the Czech language. Political repression in his native land impelled Kundera, who was stripped of his Czech citizenship in 1979, to abandon Prague for Paris in 1975....
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